[Dean's World] Dave Price: Another Senior AQI Lieutenant Dead

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Posted by Dave Price:
Another Senior AQI Lieutenant Dead
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1191003444.shtml


   Apparently, [1]it's the guy behind the 2006 kidnappings of our
   soldiers:

     Al-Tunisi was a leader in helping bring foreign terrorists into the
     country and his death "is a key loss" to Al Qaeda leadership there,
     Anderson told a Pentagon news conference.
     "He operated in Yusufiyah, southwest of Baghdad, since the second
     battle of Fallujah in November '04 and became the overall emir of
     Yusufiyah in the summer of '06," Anderson said in a videoconference
     from Baghdad.
     "His group was responsible for kidnapping our American soldiers in
     June 2006," Anderson said.

   He won't be doing any more kidnapping, due to his new full-time
   occupation of dirt napping.

     He said an associate of al-Tunisi's was captured in one mission on
     Sept. 12 in Baghdad and another with links to him was captured
     Sept. 14 in Mahmudiyah when coalition forces targeted the network
     that facilitates the flow of foreign fighters in the southern belts
     around Baghdad.
     More associates were captured over the next few days. On Sept. 25,
     commanders received information that a meeting was taking place
     near Musayib with al-Tunisi and other Al Qaeda in Iraq members. A
     U.S. Air Force F-16 aircraft attacked the target.

   No doubt we'll get a few days of front page coverage of the soldiers
   responsible for demoting al-Tunisi to a lower plane of existence, with
   fawning questions from the press corps like "Do you consider
   yourselves heroes?" and "How does it feel to kill an important Al
   Qaeda operative that was kidnapping your fellow American soldiers?"
   It's really kind of sad how much positive press war heroes get, while
   so many more important stories involving OJ Simpson and Paris Hilton
   go tragically undercovered.

References

   1. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298497,00.html